112 Water Street, Suite 201
Boston, MA 02109
617-227-3277

112 Water Street
Suite 201
Boston, MA 02109
P: 617-227-3277
F: 617-227-3222

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Our Firm

Upton Connell & Devlin, LLP is a Boston law firm that represents companies and individuals in all aspects, and at all levels, of administrative law, with a specialty in the alcoholic beverage and hospitality industries.

 

We represent well established companies and start-up businesses, and we represent clients ranging from European wineries, the largest restaurant and hotel chains in the United States and some of the largest and best-known breweries in Massachusetts, to locally owned liquor stores and independent and chef-owned restaurants located across Massachusetts.

Our Services

Our partners have appeared in more than 200 towns and cities in Massachusetts for licensing, permitting, and violation hearings. We also regularly represent businesses in regulatory investigations and in the navigation of compliance issues at the municipal, state and federal levels. Because we represent clients at all levels of the alcoholic beverage and hospitality industries, we possess a unique strength in assisting clients with the growth and protection of their businesses.

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Areas
Our partners’ almost collective eight decades of legal experience has allowed us as a team to excel in the following areas of legal representation:

• Liquor license, restaurant, and package store purchases, acquisitions and transfers;

 

• The licensing of breweries, wineries, distilleries, wholesalers and importers at the United States Trade & Tax Bureau (TTB) and Food & Drug Administration (FDA), the Massachusetts Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission (ABCC) and at the local licensing authorities located throughout Massachusetts;

 

• National label registration across the United States, Certificate of Label Approval (COLA) applications, trademark registrations and national compliance with the various states’ distribution laws;

 

• Defending against TTB and ABCC investigations;

 

• Liquor license violation hearings before the ABCC and the local licensing authorities located throughout Massachusetts;

 

• Commercial lease drafting and litigation;

 

• Business formations, financing, mergers, acquisitions, sales agreements and shareholder governance issues;

 

• Distribution agreement drafting and litigation, including brand and label franchise compliance and litigation before the ABCC;

 

• Government relations;

 

• Municipal zoning, entertainment and land use issues; and

 

• Appeals and litigation against regulatory agencies in Massachusetts state courts.

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112 Water Street, Suite 201
Boston, MA 02109
P: 617-227-3277

112 Water Street, Suite 201
Boston, MA 02109
P: 617-227-3277
F: 617-227-3222